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Ferry Nab, Windermere
Ferry Nab
site name:-   Windermere lake
locality:-   Windermere Ferry
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   headland
locality type:-   ferry
coordinates:-   SD39569578 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD3995
10Km square:-   SD39

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BZH25.jpg (taken 20.9.2013)  
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BZH26.jpg (taken 20.9.2013)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 15) 
placename:-  Ferry Nab
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Ferry Nab
source data:-   Drawing, pencil and ink wash, Ferry Nab, Windermere, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 6 October 1849.
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"Octr. 6th. 1849. / Ferry nab & Curwens Isd."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.487.70
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Ferry Nab
source data:-   Drawing, pencil and ink wash, Ferry Nab and Belle Isle, Windermere, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 6 October 1849.
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"Windermere Ferry Nab"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.487.72
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evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil and ink wash, Ferry Nab, Windermere, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1849.
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flood "Ferry inn / from Ferry Nab / In flood time"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.487.78
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
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Page 12:-  "Turning southwards along the margin, and walking about a mile, the explorer reaches the point of the promontory, Ferry Nab, which stretches out opposite the Ferry House,- itself on the point of an opposite promontory. There can hardly be a more charming resting-place than a seat under the last trees of this projection. It is breezy here; and the waters smack the shore cheerily. The Troutbeck hills come into view, and the head of the lake is grander. The round house on Curwen's island is seen among the trees. The"
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Page 13:-  "Ferry house, under its canopy of tall sycamores, and with its pebbly beach, is immediately opposite; and behind it rises the wooded bank which is, in light or shadow, one of the chief graces of the scene. If the sun shines upon it, it is feathered with foliage to the very ridge, and the bay beneath it is blue and lustrous. If the sun has gone down behind it, the bay is black; and every dipping bird sprinkles it with silver; and the wild duck that comes sailing out with her brood, draws behind her a pencil of white light. From this point, a view opens to the south. In the expanse of waters lies another island; and further down, on the eastern shore, a pier extends with a little tower at the end. ..."
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Page 30:-  "... His driver, or some resident, will probably take care that he [a visitor] does not stay till it is more than reasonably dusk. ... it is said to be impossible, somehow or other, to get over to the Ferry Nab in the ferry-boat, except by daylight. And if you should"
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Page 31:-  "arrive at the Nab too late, you may call all night for the boat, and it will not come. The traveller may judge for himself how much of the local tale may be true. He may probably have heard of the Crier of Claife, ..."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Ferry Nab, Windermere, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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The ticket booth for the ferry on the left? 
internegative at lower right:-  "H. Bell"
stamped at reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS480
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Windermere ferry approaching Ferry Nab, Windermere, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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The ferry ticket booth on the left? 
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS523
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evidence:-   old postcard:- 
item:-  cattle
source data:-   Postcard, sepia coloured photograph, near Ferry Nab, Windermere, Westmorland, published by G P Abraham, Keswick, Cumberland, about 1943.
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printed at bottom:-  "NEAR FERRY NAB, WINDERMERE"
printed at rev:-  "Photogravure Series by G. P. ABRAHAM LTD. (Copyright) KESWICK"
postmark:-  "WINDERMERE / 2[ ] PM / 28 MAY / 1943 / WESTMORLAND"
item:-  JandMN : 949
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evidence:-   probably old print:- Harwood 1842
placename:-  Ferry Point
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, The Ferry Point, Windermere Lake, Westmoreland, engraved and published by John Harwood, 26 Fenchurch Street, London, 1849.
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printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "London, J. Harwood, 26, Fenchurch Street. / No.784. July 20th. 1849. / The Ferry Point, Windermere Lake, Westmoreland."
item:-  JandMN : 166.2
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photograph
BPY29.jpg  Steam launch seen at Ferry Nab
(taken 23.1.2009)  
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